Every once in a while, the heating element seems to break on my Gaggenau EB 378 610 oven. Other than that, it works fine.
This time though, I am unable to find a replacement part since the manufacturer discontinued it. I searched everywhere online and on eBay, but was still unable to find it.
I would rather not buy a new oven since that would be very expensive and I like this one. Does anyone have any ideas about where I can find a replacement heating element? Or am I out of luck?
It’s a convection element, part #00098494, 100L
Suspiciously there is a Bosch heating element with the same part number You might want to check to see if they are equivalent.
I believe they are - in fact, Bosch acquired Gaggenau at some point. Unfortunately, it looks like both Bosch and Gaggenau discontinued the part :(
At some point the cost of replacing elements is going to exceed the cost of a new oven. You could stock up on elements if you can find any.
I don’t think I’ve ever had an element break on me, though, even on decades-old ovens. You might want to check the power to the oven and element just to make sure you’re not over-volting it or something.
Definitely possible. The first one lasted nearly 30 years (until 2020), the second lasted less than a year and was still under warranty, and the third just broke a few weeks ago. My repair guy seems to think the replacement part he’s been able to get is just lower quality than the original.
We did have a few outages this year - more than normal for us. Do you think power surges could have contributed to it breaking?
My apologies for trying to help. Good luck.
TIL downvotes on Lemmy are public lol. That was honestly just a misclick tho, my bad
